scholarly journals Eccentricity and Conformity in Toni Morrison's A Sula: The Struggle for Life in a Patriarchal Society

2021 ◽  
Vol VI (I) ◽  
pp. 233-240
Author(s):  
Mashhood Anjum ◽  
Raheel Rehman Khan ◽  
Yasir Khan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Black Female ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
American Society ◽  
Existential Issues

The present research investigates the struggle of female entities throughout their lives in a maledominated society, either acting in congruity or incongruity with the norms and set patterns of the society in order to get societal acceptance or to assert their sovereign individual-selves. The American society that is full of discrimination victimizes the race of Blacks in general and Black women in particular. As a result, the oppressed and subjugated woman has suffered as the 'Other' in American society during and after the era of slavery. The present research has delineated the existential conflicts of the Black female and the submissive or assertive behaviors they adopt to survive as free individuals. It is a qualitative research of Toni Morrison’s novel that has been critically analyzed. The novel, A Sula has been analyzed by using the lens of the Feminist Conceptual Framework, and feminine existential issues have been discussed under the umbrella of Feminist Existentialism. The present study is expected to be a significant one because it highlights different situations of the individuals in which they can redirect their destiny by actively participating as 'subjects' or passively submitting as 'Objects'.

scholarly journals Diglossic Situation in Rainbow Rowell’s Novel Eleanor & Park

2021 ◽  
pp. 388-403
Author(s):  
M Amrin Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Female Student ◽  
Qualitative Research Methods ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Or Groups ◽  
Human Problem

This study concerned the diglossic situation in Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor & Park, written in 2016. It aimed to describe the use of two different varieties of English in the novel, that is, H (high) variety and L (low) variety of the language. These varieties were found in terms of function, prestige, lexicon (vocabulary) and grammar used by some of the characters in the novel when speaking to each other. The results showed that, in terms of function, the recitation or reading of a poem by one of the characters was conducted in H (high) variety. The H (high) variety used was more prestigious. In terms of grammar, the H (high) variety was also used by a teacher when appreciating his female student who had just recited or read the poem. Some of the words or lexicons used by some of the other characters of the novel were in the form of L (low) varieties. The analysis was conducted through the qualitative research methods proposed by Creswell (2009: 4) who explained that this type of research method is a means for exploring and understanding the meaning individuals or groups ascribe to a social or human problem. Keywords: diglossic situation, high variety, low variety

scholarly journals AN IMAGE OF AMERICAN MUSLIMS THROUGH UPDIKE’S TERRORIST: A STUDY OF IDENTIFICATION AND REPRESENTATION

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Diba Prajamitha Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Muslims ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Symbolic Identification ◽  
American Muslim ◽  
Islamic Identity ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Impact

In the aftermath of September 9/11 tragedy, an image of Muslim dramatically becomes popular topic and object for the researchers. Although analyses for the most part tend to explain the image of Muslim in negative and stereotypical tendency, the wave of action that expresses positive image of Muslim has surfaced in American society. In that case, this thesis using a novel to see that social phenomena attempted to reveal that an image of American Muslims as represented by Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy in Updike’s Terrorist contributed to endorse an image of Muslim neither as extremist nor as terrorist. To achieve its purpose, firstly this study employs theory of imaginary and symbolic identification from Jacques Lacan. This theory is used to explain the impact of fatherless background, the presence of surrogate father and the influence of another figure on Ahmad. Secondly focusing on an image of American Muslims, theory of representation from Hall is applied. His theory is as a bridge that Muslim can be constructed and represented in the novel. Furthermore, opinions about extremist and moderate Muslim are used to explain those images through characteristics such as thought, action and orientation. The result of the study reveals that the process of identification divides people whom Ahmad had interaction into category of Muslim and non-Muslim group. Muslim group teaches Islamic identity to Ahmad and non-Muslim group plays big role to influence Ahmad to integrate himself into American society. Due to those groups, an identity and image of Ahmad is always related to the other. Focusing on Ahmad’s representation as American Muslim, he shows that there are three images such as extremist, transitional and moderate. As a result, through depicting Ahmad as moderate Muslim, Muslim is not terrorist.Keywords: American Muslim, identification, representation, extremist Muslim, moderate Muslim

scholarly journals MILES�S CHARACTER IN LOOKING FOR ALASKA: A PSYCHOLOGYCAL PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 136
Author(s):  
Yani Heryani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Research Design ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Know How ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Primary Data Source ◽  
Data Source

The aim of this research was to analyze the character of Miles Halter and the influences of the other characters towards Miles�s character in Looking for Alaska novel. The primary data source was transcribed from Looking for Alaska Novel directed by John Green (2005). Here, the researcher applied a descriptive qualitative research design based on theories of Roberts and Freud. To know how Miles�s character presented in the novel, the researcher used several ways such as from what Miles does and says and from what the other characters says about Miles. As result, the reseracher found that Miles�s characters were nice, independent, diligent, hard worker, naughty, curious, smart, and unique. Besides, the reseracher also found the influences from the other characters such as habitual in reading, smoking, drinking, and pranking.Keywords: Young� adult literarure, Novel and Character

scholarly journals Voice from the ‘Other’: A Feminist Reading of Doris Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 142-149
Author(s):  
Murugesan M ◽  
Dr. A. K. Muthusamy
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Human Race ◽  
Her Family ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
The Status ◽  
Taking Care

The concept ‘the Other’is a literary theory, which defines one’s identity among others. It explains the state of a person who is neglected or subordinated and displays how one feels as an alien by gender, caste, religion, culture, appearance, geography, ideology and so on. Doris Lessing’s novels are mostly concerned with human race and criticize the patriarchal society, where female does not get the recognition she is due. Instead of taking care of women, appreciating their talents and providing them freedom of expression and movement, the society makes them feel ‘the Other’. Lessing has crafted the novel, The Summer Before the Dark as to expose the fate of women, who are always submissive and unassertive to their husbands and children, thereby becoming insignificant to the society. This paper examines the status of Kate Brown in her family and in the society, where she is neglected and deprecated by her ungrateful husband and children by the frame of ‘The Other’/ ‘Otherness’.

scholarly journals Analysis of English Loanwords Ayat-Ayat Cinta 2 Novel

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Suswanto Ismadi Megah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Status ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study is aimed to analyze the novel Ayat-ayat Cinta 2 which was written by Habibirahman El-Shirazy. This study analyzed the usage of English loanwords in the novel, particularly English phrase in the novel. The data analyzed based the descriptive qualitative research based the the text of the novel. The data found of the  novel Ayat-ayat Cinta 2 is 19 data, which consist of the adjective +noun is 4 data. The Noun + noun is 12, and the Noun + adjective is 3. So, the data is mostly dominated the noun + noun. This study concluded that the usage of the  English loanwords of the novel have meaning that to make conversation more easy, and the other reason is too difficult to find equal meaning in Indonesian language. In addition, English loanwords also shows a social status as the intellectual person who always used international, particularly English in his communication.             Keywords: English,  phrases, loanwords, and novel

Black Women, Romance and the Indiewood Rom Coms of Sanaa Hamri

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelley Cobb
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Romantic Comedy ◽  
Black Film ◽  
Women's Cinema ◽  
Female Filmmakers ◽  
Middle Class Blacks

This chapter explores Sanaa Hamri's innovations on the mainstream genre of the postfeminist romantic comedy in her Indiewood productions Something New (2006) and Just Wright (2010). Compatible with a trend for ‘feel-good’ films about middle-class blacks, Hamri’s films are neither formally innovative nor politically progressive and therefore ignored in studies of contemporary black film and women’s cinema alike. Yet simply in existing, as films about black women made by black female filmmakers who are thereby made visible, Hamri’s films intervene in a pervasively white postfeminist media culture. They also transfigure the black romantic comedy by challenging the dominant stereotype of the middle-class black woman’s negotiation of love and career in which she must give up one to have the other.

“Written, published, … cross-indexed, and footnoted”: Producing Black Female Ph.D.s and Black Women's and Gender Studies Scholarship in Political Science

2008 ◽  
Vol 41 (04) ◽  
pp. 819-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Black Female ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
Political Criticism ◽  
And Gender

In an essay entitled “Variations on Negations and the Heresy of Black Feminist Creativity,” Black feminist Michele Wallace explores the difficulties of producing and presenting a “black female cultural perspective, which for the most part is not allowed to become written in a society in which writing is the primary currency of knowledge” (Wallace 1990, 54). Although she anticipates that some might find a defense of Black female cultural and political criticism “elitist,” she nevertheless remains, “convinced that the major battle for the ‘other’ of the ‘other’ [i.e., Black women] will be to achieve a voice, or voices, thus inevitably transforming the basic relations of dominant discourse. Only with these voices—written, published, televised, taped, filmed, staged, cross-indexed, and footnoted—will [Black women] approach control over [their] own lives” (66).

scholarly journals Positive Liberty and Black Female Subjectivity in Toni Morrison’s Sula

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Najd F. Alfaqir
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Black Female ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
Female Autonomy ◽  
Positive Liberty ◽  
Closed Systems ◽  
Feminist Aesthetics

The essay investigates the representation of female subjectivity that is disturbed by issues of race, gender, and community in Toni Morrison’s novel, Sula. In my analysis, I bring to bear both the works of postmodernist theory and contemporary Feminist aesthetics in order to strengthen female subjectivity against the closed systems in which black women are objectified and separated from the autonomous existence they deserve. My representation of postmodernism is inspired by Linda Hucheon’s theory of Postmodernism in A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. Her suggestion that postmodernism is a contradictory concept that simultaneously acknowledges and disregards any concept offers new possibilities; it blurs the lines that humans create between self/other and centered/decentered, undermining socially constructed notions of good and bad. As I closely examine the character of Sula, who embodies such postmodern concept, I attempt to rethink her position as marginalized and evil to think about her character as a quest to rise above the limitations resulting from the closed systems in which black women are objectified. In my conclusion, I suggest that Sula’s presence in the novel as radical on the surface is positive, for she transforms her otherness into a space from which female autonomy and liberty emerge. Throughout Sula, Morrison explores spaces of existence beyond constructed social conventions towards female individuality and Sula epitomizes that in her positive liberty.

scholarly journals The Bluest Eyes: Objectification of Women and Victimization of Male Sex-offenders

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-56
Author(s):  
Zenab Jahangir ◽  
Tayyaba Bashir ◽  
Rasib Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Male Sex ◽  
Objectification Of Women ◽  
Male Sex Offenders

The present study intends to study Toni Morrison’s novel The Bluest Eyes with a Feminist approach. It shows how the sex-offenders oppress little black girls in a patriarchal society. The sex-offenders on the other hand are presented as victims of circumstances and their victimization of black girls is justified by portraying the girls to be the cause of the heinous acts committed to violate their innocence. All black girls, despite the claim of the novelist that it is written from their perspective, are presented in the novel to be reasonably oppressed by the male characters. The author through a series of incidents has tried to depict the objectification of the female sex on one side while the victimization of the sex-offenders on the other. It is a strange dichotomy of events and incidents which has been explored through Catherine Belsey’s Textual Analysis as tool of interpreting various scenes and dialogues.

scholarly journals PANDANGAN EMPAT TOKOH PEREMPUAN TERHADAP VIRGINITAS DALAM NOVEL GARIS PEREMPUAN KARYA SANIE B. KUNCORO: PERSPEKTIF FEMINIS RADIKAL

Kandai ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 281
Author(s):  
Ery Agus Kurnianto
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Pull Out ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Good Woman

In a patriarchal society, virginity is a symbol of personality for a woman. If a woman is able to keep herself virgin and serve it later to her husband after marriage, then she is valued as a “good” woman. On the other side, if a woman lost her virginity before marriage she will be labeled as “bad” woman. Furthermore how the opinions about virginity be seen through the four female characters glasses contained in the novel by Sanie B. Kuncoro? This article will discuss women’s point of view interpreted from four female characters in Garis Perempuan novel by Sanie B. Kuncoro. This research is a descriptive research. Therefore, this article is aimed to describe the different views of four female characters regarding virginity issue. Radical feminist theory is being applied to interpret the views of four female characters as identifying the character as the first step. The result shows that the virginity is a negotiable commodity to pull out women from the issue of life. Virginity is also seen as a dignity which is priceless. Virginity is a born treasure. Therefore, a woman has a right to give her virginity to whoever she wants without any interferences from patriarchal society.  

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